iPhone V2 speculation...

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theheyes said:
As an iPhone owner, my wishlist for iPhone 2.0:

1. It's not that much better than iPhone 1.0

Otherwise I'm going to be well annoyed. :D
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++ I only bought mine a week ago! The v2 rumours thread has some good ideas... but if you check the iblog - theres a crackin photo of a white one... how legit we shall wait and see... :)
 
Lol... if Apple's selling it, then just when India... Thailand... e.t.c just got iPhone v1.0, v2.0 comes out :p

I hope v2.0 is good or I'll be crossed - I missed the 8GB party wagon and the v2.0 is the only thing I'm looking forward to now...
 
I rang my local carphone warehouse today to see if they had any 8GB iPhones in stock and the lady on the phone said they had to send any remaining stock back for unknown reasons :S
 
I'm seriously hoping that is because they're gearing up for a new release! There where only 2 reasons I didn't buy an iPhone when they where cheap... 3G and support for Bluetooth stereo headsets (for music)... Even if the system came with only those two extras I would buy one in an instant!
 
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Just to **** on your parade..

Don't expect the iPhone 3G to ship to the UK until August. That's what analysts are saying.. June for USA, August for UK.

I'm hoping they are wrong as I've been iPhone-less since April, and I'm not shelling out £329 2 months before the next addition.
 
EVH said:
Just to **** on your parade..

Don't expect the iPhone 3G to ship to the UK until August. That's what analysts are saying.. June for USA, August for UK.

I'm hoping they are wrong as I've been iPhone-less since April, and I'm not shelling out £329 2 months before the next addition.
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That's the thing, we're never going to get a worldwide release.
 
EVH said:
Just to **** on your parade..

Don't expect the iPhone 3G to ship to the UK until August. That's what analysts are saying.. June for USA, August for UK.

I'm hoping they are wrong as I've been iPhone-less since April, and I'm not shelling out £329 2 months before the next addition.
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Well, you had your hands on about 8, its not Apple's fault that you are iphon-less :p
 
TBH i've found 3G to be no big deal, with free wifi becoming more widespread i've found myself using wifi on my iphone more than I ever did on the XDA's simply because it's more usable and being honest safari is better than the pocket version of IE. The thing I keep coming back to is GPS. I can compe with almost every one of the iphones short falls in terms of features with external apps but for the love of god apple GPS MUST be in 2.0, even if v1 can be bodged for a bluetooth GPS unit i'd be happy.
 
Personally I hate not having 3g.. free WiFi might be more commonplace now, but it's certainly a long long way away from being available in enough places to be truly useful on the move. I used to constantly browse, check mails etc etc on my N95 when I was on the move, but I rarely do the same on the iPhone because it's so slow.

GPS I couldn't care less about.. if it means it gets significantly bigger or heavier then I'd rather it wasn't there at all. Used it for about a week when I got the N95, then it got filed under "useless features" for me, and for everyone else I know with one.
 
If they can add GPS without sacrificing battery life and size then I'm all for it.

Couldn't care less about 3G. EDGE is fine for my usage as I'm almost always around Wi-Fi access (in work and at home) to rarely need it.
 
Beepcake said:
GPS I couldn't care less about.. if it means it gets significantly bigger or heavier then I'd rather it wasn't there at all. Used it for about a week when I got the N95, then it got filed under "useless features" for me, and for everyone else I know with one.
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Ahh, you see that's where you're going wrong, you're basing your expectations on an N95. If you look at the 18-30's demographic they may well have a portable mp3/divx player. If they drive they may well use a sat nav device sometimes and they will most probably have a mobile phone. They may have a laptop and a 3G dongle and possibly a digital camera/video camera but out of all those the N95 owners they probably won't use an 'out of the box' N95 for more than three of those functions despite it being marketed for all of them. Why ? The short* version is it's not very good at anything other than photo/video and phone functions, certainly not good enough to replace the rest of the devices above.

I accept your point that if GPS was included it probably wouldn't be used by the majority of people but a GPS chipset would draw almost nothing from the battery when not in use and in terms of space we're hardly talking silicon real estate for the now ancient sirf3's let alone any of the newer chip sets. I'd be more than happy with a decent bluetooth stack that could handle a 3rd party GPS box, you'd have thought now the SDK had been out for a while some dev time would have gone into understanding why Apple crippled bluetooth in v1.

*If you are actually bothered about the long version of why the N95 is lacking highlight below but as it's OT I decided to leave it camouflaged.

The N95 is a let down in comparison to the portable devices on offer 18 months before it's launch let alone those made after it's launch (not phones remember according to Nokia 'It's what computers have become'). Sure it's fine if you want a *phone* with a nice camera and to connect at 3G speeds but try doing anything with that lovely little symbian based package and using it as intended and it seems to come up short.

For instance lets look at the inbuilt Sat Nav, it's basic at best and in all honesty pretty useless, no wonder you don't know of anyone who uses it for it's intended function! It's not supported by the major SatNav players (granted this will probably change) as it's GPS implementation is non standard so that leaves you having to fork out for a another bluetooth GPS device and propper software.

Then we get to that much fabled 3G data connectivity, want to do anything that requires a reasonably versatile browser ? Err ... no keyboard/no touch screen, granted you can navigate round and thumb in the odd url via the keypad but compared to even the iphone on edge the N95 is slower to use for data entry and navigation. Touch screen has been the standard in portable devices for 5+ years now.

What about it's superior connectivity as a 3G Modem, well it's great but wouldn't you expect one of the major players in the OMTP who signed up to the same standardised charging/communication spec as the majority of other mobile OEM's in 2007 (micro USB) that they may have chosen to include USB charging as a feature in the latest N Series? Nope.

That brings us to the battery, for a device as thick as the N95 i'd expect decent battery life. Again it's the same as other Nokia batteries in general, they seem to suffer individual cell failure all too often for my liking.

Music and video playback is OK but again nothing close to that of an ipod.
 
Looks to me Apple is dropping the entire current iPhone in preparation for the new model. Almost feels like they have even stopped production/moved to producing the new model already. Have to admit it's very efficient, never knew such a product sell so well in the last month of its shelf life.
 
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